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BROWNE , See also:HAI#See also:LOT See also:KNIGHT (1815–1882), See also:English artist, famous as " Phiz," the illustrator of the best-known books by See also:Charles See also:Dickens, Charles See also:Lever and See also:Harrison See also:Ainsworth in their See also:original See also:editions. His talents in other directions of See also:art were of a very See also:ordinary See also:kind. As an interpreter and illustrator of Di'cken's characters, " Phiz," as he always signed his drawings, was in some respects the equal of his rivals See also:Cruikshank and See also:Leech, while, in his own way, he excelled them both. Of Huguenot extraction, he was See also:born in See also:Lambeth on the 1 rth of See also:June 1815. His See also:father died See also:early and See also:left the See also:family badly off. Browne was apprenticed to See also:Finden, the eminent engraver on See also:steel, in whose studio he obtained his only See also:artistic See also:education. To See also:engraving, however, he was entirely unsuited, and having in 1833 secured an important See also:prize from the Society of Arts for a See also:drawing of " See also:John See also:Gilpin," he abandoned engraving in the following See also:year and took to other artistic See also:work, with the ultimate See also:object of becoming a painter. In the See also:spring of 1836 he met Charles
Dickens. It was at the moment when the serial publication which See also:place his father was See also:vicar. He was educated at See also:Lichfield, at See also:Westminster school, and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. After taking his M.A. degree he removed to See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and was called to the See also:bar, but never practised. He was the author of See also:Design and Beauty," a poem addressed to his friend See also:Joseph Highmore the painter; and of " The See also:Pipe of See also:Tobacco " which parodied See also:Cibber, See also:Ambrose See also:Philips, See also:Thomson, See also:Young, See also:Pope and See also:Swift, who were then all living. He was elected to See also:Parliament through private See also:interest in 1744 and again in 1747 for the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Wenlock in See also:Shropshire. In 1754 he published his See also:chief work, De Animi Immortalitate, a Latin poem much admired by the scholars of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. The best of the many See also:translations of these verses is by Soame See also:Jenyns. Browne is said by See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson to have been " one of the first wits of this See also:country." He was a brilliant talker in private See also:life, especially when his See also:tongue was loosed by See also:wine; but he made no See also:mark in public life. He died in See also:London on the 14th of See also:February 176o.
Two editions of his Poems on Various Subjects, Latin and English, were published in 1767 by his son See also:Isaac See also:Hawkins Browne (1745-1818), the author of two volumes of essays on See also:religion and morals. One of these was printed for private circulation, and is said to have contained a memoir. A full See also:account by See also:Andrew See also:Kippis in Biographia Britannica (178o) includes large extracts from his poems.
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